Can There Be Hope In The Midst Of Failure?

Hope is an important part of success. It is important to have hope to survive and
thrive. We also need hope when we face failure. It is hard to find any hope when
we're in our darkest days. Can you imagine having total peace and contentment
even at the moment of total defeat? I've experienced it in my life.

It's not easy...it only happens when you truly give those failures or other situation to
God. It's an amazing feeling and seems almost out of place. God can do that...try it...
give your cares to him.

There is also another hope that is more than just a hope for a better life.
There is hope that the bible talks about that is about our eternal life. This
life is not even a second compared to eternity. The bible talks about a life
after we die. There are two pathways that is based on one choice...that
choice is Jesus. Read more about it in our section Success After Death.

11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within
me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance
and my God. Psalms 42:11 (NKJV)

The hope of the righteous will be gladness, But the expectation of the
wicked will perish. Proverbs 10:28 (NKJV)

Oh, love the LORD, all you His saints! For the LORD preserves the faithful,
And fully repays the proud person. Be of good courage, And He shall
strengthen your heart, All you who hope in the LORD. Psalms 31:23-24 (NKJV)

Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy,
Psalms 33:18 (NKJV)

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:12 (NKJV)

"Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, And whose hope is the LORD.
Jeremiah 17:7 (NKJV)

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the
patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. Romans 15:4 (NKJV)

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 (NKJV)

For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Galatians 5:5 (NKJV)

That we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. In Him you also trusted, after you heard the
word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of
promise, Ephesians 1:12-13 (NKJV)

To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is
Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27 (NKJV)

But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others
who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who
sleep in Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 (NKJV)

That having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Titus 3:7 (NKJV)

That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have
fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and
steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, Hebrews 6:18-19 (NKJV)

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23 (NKJV)

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us
again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and
undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith
for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be,
you have been grieved by various trials, 1 Peter 1:3-6 (NKJV)

See also Eternal Life, Faith, Heaven, Trusting God